Quoted from cottonm4:At Texas State Fair a few years ago I got a stick with bacon on the stick and it was dipped in chocolate.
State Fair Food that is actually good:
Turkey Legs
Corn Dogs
Funnel Cake
Quoted from cottonm4:At Texas State Fair a few years ago I got a stick with bacon on the stick and it was dipped in chocolate.
State Fair Food that is actually good:
Turkey Legs
Corn Dogs
Funnel Cake
Quoted from Mr68:My favorite at the Minnesota State Fair. Makes me smile each time and I think it's brilliant concept.[quoted image][quoted image]
Sadly, P.O.A.S. went away several years ago
Quoted from ReadyPO:State Fair Food that is actually good:
Turkey Legs
Corn Dogs
Funnel Cake
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I liked to like turkey legs when they were $5.00. Then they went to nine bucks a pop and priced me out.
Quoted from cottonm4:I liked to like turkey legs when they were $5.00. Then they went to nine bucks a pop and priced me out.
First you mentioned $8.00 shipping passing on the bacon soda and now you are out on the $9 turkey legs?
I don’t know your finances but I would say go for it on both. Gotta live. Gotta live.
Quoted from cottonm4:I liked to like turkey legs when they were $5.00. Then they went to nine bucks a pop and priced me out.
I worked at the Minnesota State Fair until 1972. Then went there at least one morning every year for old times sake. Until about 5 years ago. Pronto Pups hit $4.50 each.
I miss it. A lot. But realized I was going out of habit. Not that it was fun anymore.
Same with the Minnesota Renaissance Festival. I was fortunate to go for about 25 years when the Feast of Fantasy was worthwhile. Then it became habit more than fun.
LTG : )
Quoted from pinnyheadhead:First you mentioned $8.00 shipping passing on the bacon soda and now you are out on the $9 turkey legs?
I don’t know your finances but I would say go for it on both. Gotta live. Gotta live.
When I can walk on down to the farm and produce building and get a hot roast beef sandwich, mashed potatoes, and a drink for around $7.00, I find that the turkey legs suddenly don't cut it.
Quoted from LTG:I miss it. A lot. But realized I was going out of habit. Not that it was fun anymore.
Same here. I go out of habit. It is somewhere to go. Since Kansas is a lot of rural people, the state fair has many farm exhibits: All the poultry. All the cattle and hogs. And the farm equipment. I soured on the rides and kewpie dolls years ago.
I worked at the James Strates Traveling Fair in Florida in 1976 and 1977.
At first, I was selling Pachinko Machines, for Pachinko house out of Georgia.
I hung out so much, and dated a girl, that I ended up behind the cranes, selling water insoles, and magic carpet cleaner,
and helped run the ring on a string to a pole that you had to stand a coke bottle up.
But my favorite was watching the people spend hours tossing coins into stacks of Plates,cups and glasses.
There were many trying to get a full set, and would spend hundreds of dollars....
I couldnt find a pic, but does anyone else remember this massive tent?
Watching them set up all the plates was a trip too!
Quoted from OLDPINGUY:But my favorite was watching the people spend hours tossing coins into stacks of Plates,cups and glasses.
There were many trying to get a full set, and would spend hundreds of dollars....
When I worked at the shooting range my father ran until 1972. I got a kick out of people. They'd run down to Royal American ( the carnival ) first thing in the morning. Get a set of plates or glasses. Lug it around all day. And about 4 in the afternoon just start dumping them in the trash bins.
We'd fish them out later. Sell them the next morning. Wash rinse repeat.
LTG : )
Quoted from OLDPINGUY:helped run the ring on a string to a pole that you had to stand a coke bottle up.
I never paid to do that. I found it interesting to watch how easy the booth operator?/carny?/ fair worker? made it look to lift that pop bottle up but I never saw anything else except for peoples' money going from their hand to his.
What's the trick?
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I don't know if it was huge tent but it was fairly good sized with all those different color plates tempting people to part with their money.
I tried the machine gun where you TRY to shoot out all of the red star.
I tried tried playing tic-tac-toe with the chicken and lost to that damned bird.
And I tried that pool table where there is an 8 ball pool ball with a quarter placed on top and you are supposed to lightly hit the 8 ball with the cue ball and watch the quarter slide off of the top. Hit it too hard and the ball rolls out and lets the quarter drop in its place and you lose. I tried that for a few coins and figured out there was no way I could shoot soft enough to not lose my money.
When I was a kid, those Draglines were about the first items one saw after going through the ticket gate. I liked the draglines; It had to be due to the trill of the chase because those were cheap lighters and cheap pocket knives that were offered as prizes.
Quoted from cottonm4:What's the trick?
Youtube has lots of videos showing how carny games work.
LTG : )
Quoted from Mr68:We never heard back from you. How was the bacon soda? The reviews are pretty scary.
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Don’t waste your money on these gimmick sodas. My sister works at a store that sells these. For my birthday a few years back she stuffed these in a gift basket. Let me just say “it’s the thought that counts”
Quoted from LTG:Youtube has lots of videos showing how carny games work.
LTG : )
I never thought about looking at youtube for this info.
Now armed with this newfound knowledge, I'm going the next state fair and clean house at the bottle shop. I'll pay a dollar and play to win a prize that is worth a quarter. And the more I win.......
Quoted from cottonm4:I'll pay a dollar and play to win a prize that is worth a quarter. And the more I win.......
That is the problem. What the crap you win is really worth.
At the MN. State Fair when I worked at the shooting range my father ran. One of our guys knew a person down in Royal American shows. They ran the rides and carny games there at that time.
Every morning this guy went down and bought a medium size stuffed animal for .25 ¢ and brought it back to the shooting range and sold it for $5. ( he used the money for food ) It always sold fast. And I guarantee you Royal American wasn't losing money on that stuffed animal.
LTG : )
Quoted from LTG:That is the problem. What the crap you win is really worth.
But the kid's girlfriend gets the wide eyes if he wins something Being a red blooded boy, he digs deep for another quarter to please his lady
Gee honey, I don't know where the money went
Quoted from cottonm4:But the kid's girlfriend gets the wide eyes if he wins something Being a red blooded boy, he digs deep for another quarter to please his lady
Gee honey, I don't know where the money went
I'd stand on the side and ask the carny, "how much do you need ?" $5 usually did it, going in his pocket.
LTG : )
This “Cover The Spot” game got some money from me at a fair once. The carny guy even demonstrated how to solve it. He covered all the red right in front of my own eyes. I tried and tried but couldn’t do it.
Quoted from LTG:I'd stand on the side and ask the carny, "how much do you need ?" $5 usually did it, going in his pocket.
LTG : )
Oh, the memories this thread drags up. When I was in the military, the shop next door had a dart board hanging on the wall. I got pretty good at throwing darts.
Now long out of the service and staying at my dad's house, I went to the local fair. There was the usual spin-the-wheel to win a prize and that sort of stuff. And then there was guy who had a giant dart board (probably 15 ft long by 6 ft high) divided into red and white squares like a checker board. The squares measured approximately 4 inches square. And all squares were bordered with a black border about 3/4" inch wide. You could bet on red, white, or black. Black paid more because it was smaller target. Red and white paid dollar for dollar. You stepped up to shelf/table and placed your bet on one of the three colors.
I walked up during a dead space in business and the operator was shooting the shit with another booth operator. He comes over and I place my bet. Let's say I picked white. He hands me the darts, or a dart. I throw and hit white. He pays. I bet white again and hit. He pays. I'm hitting so I up my bet to $5.00 a pop. Then I bet red and hit. He pays. And now I am drawing a crowd. I bet red. They bet red. I bet white. They bet white. I'm hitting this guy hard and he is starting to sweat as he is running around the booth paying out cash. He is getting nervous.
The action comes to an end when the darts quit sticking onto the board and start falling to the floor. Now everybody is thinking his darts are rigged. I think I walked away with about $30.00 of his money. I don't know about the others who were betting with me.
It was fun.
It was fun being good enough with the darts that people were following my bets.
It was fun watching the operator sweat ( literally and figuratively ). He met his match---and it was me.
It was fun.
The operators' lesson: Never set up a game that someone, with a little practice, can beat.
I don't throw darts anymore. I injured my elbow. I was just a dumb kid back then, but if I were to run across dartboard booth like that again, and I was in practice, I would clean up before the guy would have to shut down his booth.
Quoted from bssbllr:Could never figure this one out though.
Check Youtube for jacobs ladder or fair games. It takes a little practice. All but laying on the rope ladder, and go fast.
LTG : )
Anyone ever heard of a lightbright cube? My wife brought one home for my grand daughter to play with.
Did you ever sit on a phone book? I grew up in Chicago where the huge local phone books were used as booster seats for little kids at the dinner table. My childhood barber also had me sit on one to cut my hair. I suppose this only works if you live around a big city. The little town I live in now has a phone book the size of a Readers Digest.
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Why would they? A mental hospital, maybe.
Quoted from zr11990:Has anyone ever seen one of these.
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Yeah, not uncommon.
Ooh, you have the original 120v version! Now they sell it with a wimpy battery powered light.
Quoted from mooch:RIP B.J. Thomas
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That one hurt.
His songs mean a lot to me.
Quoted from DanQverymuch:Why would they? A mental hospital, maybe.
Sunburn.
Her pose indicates she's making several copies and possibly a christmas list.
Quoted from Mr68:Sunburn.
Her pose indicates she's making several copies and possibly a christmas list.
Giggle. Well, there is nothing to fear from a photocopier, any UV that is emitted (if any) would be mostly blocked by the glass.
The cover is there mainly to prevent toner waste (black borders) and only secondarily to protect your eyes from the bright but mostly harmless light.
I have read about the glass shattering when someone sat on the photocopier. They’re not meant to hold that much weight.
Quoted from swampfire:I have read about the glass shattering when someone sat on the photocopier. They’re not meant to hold that much weight.
She doesn’t look like she weighs very much. She needs a sandwich
Surely they use tempered glass. Like on pins, which aren't meant to hold ANY weight!
Maybe it was an early model. Surely, once the photocopier manufacturers heard about the sit & scanning, their lawyers would have told them to beef up the glass.
Remember the Time-Life book series they used to advertise during syndicated shows on the UHF station or during Saturday morning cartoons?
"John Wesley Hardin, so mean, he once shot a man just for snoring too loud"
I’m at my father-in-law’s place and just came across these. They are coming home with us
Quoted from DanQverymuch:Surely they use tempered glass.
Maybe yes maybe no. Depends on make and model and country of origin.
LTG : )
Quoted from mooch:Did you ever sit on a phone book?
So that's why those phone books used to smell so bad.
I have most of that Time-Life series. The title always makes me think, if they weren't unknown, they wouldn't be mysteries!
I'd like to see a series of encyclopedias called "Ex-Mysteries of the Known"!
Quoted from DanQverymuch:I have most of that Time-Life series. The title always makes me think, if they weren't unknown, they wouldn't be mysteries!
I'd like to see a series of encyclopedias called "Ex-Mysteries of the Known"!
I'd like to see a new attempt to solve the mystery of who Jack the Ripper was. Ever show I have ever watched about JtR always ended the arm chair gripping drama by saying "we still have no idea of who he was but we sucked you in again. We surely hope you enjoyed our commercial breaks".
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I spent hours with Silly Putty and the newspaper.
Quoted from Mike_J:I spent hours with Silly Putty and the newspaper.
I first got some Silly Putty when I was about 6 years old. I loved lifting images from the comics with it. But one line from its instructions haunted me: “Remember! Always put Silly Putty back in its egg or it will slowly run away.”
The captain dude in this commercial mentions it, too.
One night I forgot to put it back in the egg and left it on a wooden end table. The next morning the Silly Putty was gone, leaving only a stain on the table. I freaked out and told my Mom it had run away! I searched the house, looking under the couch and beds and even looked around outside. My Mom said that maybe furniture polish on the table had made it melt. She did regularly spray all the wood furniture with can after can of Lemon Pledge. But now I think she threw it out because she was pissed it stained her table.
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My granny had one of those, too. The outer layer was pretty rough on your skin, but it was much softer when you got to all the "petticoat" layers underneath.
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